Re: email as a bona fide git transport

Vegard Nossum
2019-10-22T16:30:24Z

On 10/22/19 3:53 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 02:11:22PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>>
>> As I wrote in there, we could already today start using
>>
>> git am --message-id
>>
>> when applying patches and this would provide something that a bot could
>> annotate with git notes pointing to lore/LKML/LWN/whatever. I think that
>> would already be a pretty nice improvement over today's situation.
>>
>> Sadly, since the beginning of 2018, this was only used for a measly
>> ~0.14% of all non-merge commits in the kernel:
>>
>> $ git rev-list --count --no-merges --since='2018-01-01' --grep 'Message-Id:
>> ' linus/master
>> 178
>
> You might also want to count commits which have a link tag with a
> Message-Id:
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c3438dad66a34a7d4e7509a5dd64c2326340a52a.1571647180.git.mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org
>
> That's because some kernel developers have been using a hook script like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # For .git/hooks/applypatch-msg
> #
> # You must have the following in .git/config:
> # [am]
> # messageid = true
>
> . git-sh-setup
> perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
> test -x "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" &&
> exec "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" ${1+"$@"}
> :
>
> .... as we had reached rough consensus that this was the best way to
> incorprate the message id (since it could made to be a clickable link
> in tools like gitk, for example). This rough consensus has only been
> in place since around the time of the Maintainer's Summit in Lisbon,
> so uptake is still probably a bit slow. I'd expect to see a lot more
> of this in the next merge window, though.

Thanks, I was not aware of this!

Seems like something that should go in Documentation/maintainer/,
right?

The figure is much better, 16.7% on all non-merges since 2018-01-01.
This should help and we can maybe already do some interesting things
with git notes and lore/public-inbox.

Vegard